REGARDING the efforts of the gentlemen of letters and dollar-marks who propose a reform of English spelling, Serena and I have decided that nothing will come of it. Serena points out to me that I have ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Enough is enuf. Sign up here. The Simplified Spelling Society (SSS) is celebrating its 99th birthday by launching a new campaign to make it easier to read and write English. It may ...
In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the mail. Addressed to “A. Linkon Esq.” and dated “Ogust 6,” it was written in ...
While going through some old schoolwork, Sal Perez discovered a sheet of paper from his preschool years in which he drew out shapes and attempted to spell their names underneath. He shared a photo of ...
Roger was one of the first words for "R" in early aviation phonetic alphabets and came to mean "message received." ...
LONDON TIMES -- NEW YORK TIMES.Special Cable. Copyright, 1906.G. BERNARD SHAW TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About ...
THOMAS P. HUGHES, LL. D. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, ...
Sir, I am sure Lucy Wadham is steeped in French spelling and grammar (“French spelling wars are a displacement activity”, Comment, February 18). But I am worried about her knowledge of English. She ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback